Why Some Migrants Say They'll Self-Deport

What A Day

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Trump administration's relentless assault on immigrants keeps marching on. Over the weekend, federal officials said they arrested nearly 800 people in Florida during a four-day immigration enforcement operation. ICE also deported three children who are U.S. citizens on Friday, including one who’d been diagnosed with cancer. As the White House widens its brutal crackdown on migrants, some say they’ll do what Trump wants them to do: leave the country and the lives they built here behind. Rebecca Plevin, who covers equity for The Los Angeles Times, tells us why. And in headlines: Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome, President Trump admits Russian President Vladimir Putin may not want to stop attacking Ukraine, and the White House restored visa registrations for thousands of international students.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, April 28th.
0:04.0	I'm Josie Duffy Rice in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day.
0:07.8	The show that rejects the idea that, quote, Christopher Columbus is so back, as the White House claimed to be a tweet.
0:15.1	He's not back.
0:16.7	Not at all.
0:17.5	He's dead, actually.
0:28.6	Yeah. Not at all. He's dead, actually. On today's show, Pope Francis is laid to rest, and President Donald Trump admits that maybe Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't want to stop attacking Ukraine. Who knew? But first,
0:40.4	there's more news in Trump's assault on immigrants. On Friday, FBI agents arrested Milwaukee
0:46.1	County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan after she allegedly, quote, intentionally misdirected
0:50.8	federal agents. The agency claimed she told an undocumented immigrant to leave through
0:55.4	a side door of the courtroom as immigration and customs enforcement agents waited in the main
1:00.2	hallway. The arrest also highlights the Trump administration's increasing animosity towards the
1:05.3	judiciary. Then on Saturday, ICE officials announced the arrest of almost 800 people in Florida in just
1:12.0	four days.
1:13.4	They called the mass arrests a, quote, first of its kind partnership between state and federal
1:17.8	partners, keeping America safe by using local law enforcement to help ICE deport people instead
1:24.1	of, you know, solving crimes, for example.
1:27.8	And lastly, Trump's assault on immigration has, as many warned, begun to directly ensnare American citizens.
1:34.5	And a shocking violation of their rights, three U.S. citizens were deported on Friday.
1:39.4	All three were children, ages 2, 4, and 7.
1:43.3	Administration officials say they were deported with their mothers.
1:46.7	As if that wasn't bad enough, the Washington Post reports that one of the children has stage 4 cancer
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